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{{Infobox settlement
<!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions -->
<!-- Name and transliteration -->| name                     = Goes
| settlement_type          = City and municipality
<!-- Images, nickname, motto -->| image_skyline            = City harbor of Goes, the Netherlands.jpg
| image_alt                = 
| image_caption            = Harbour of Goes
| image_flag               = Flag of Goes.svg
| flag_size                = 100x67px
| flag_alt                 = 
| image_shield             = Coat of arms of Goes.svg
| shield_size              = 100x80px
| shield_alt               = <!-- Maps, coordinates -->
| image_map                = Map - NL - Municipality code 0664 (2009).svg
| map_alt                  = Highlighted position of Goes in a municipal map of Zeeland
| map_caption              = Location in Zeeland
| pushpin_map              = Netherlands Zeeland#Netherlands#Europe
| pushpin_map_caption      = Location within the province of Zeeland##Location within the Netherlands##Location within Europe
| pushpin_relief           = 1
| coordinates              = {{coord|51|30|N|3|53|E|region:NL|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes    = 
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = Netherlands
| subdivision_type1        = Province
| subdivision_name1        = Zeeland
| government_footnotes     = <ref name="mayor_now">{{cite web
 |url=http://www.goes.nl/bestuur-organisatie/samenstelling-bw_41469/ 
 |title=Samenstelling B&W 
 |trans-title=Members of the board of mayor and aldermen 
 |language=nl 
 |publisher=Gemeente Goes 
 |access-date=10 December 2013 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213091642/http://www.goes.nl/bestuur-organisatie/samenstelling-bw_41469/ 
 |archive-date=13 December 2013 
}}</ref>
| governing_body           = Municipal council
| leader_party             = PvdA
| leader_title             = Mayor
| leader_name              = Margo Mulder
<!-- Geographic information -->| unit_pref                = Metric
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<!-- for references: use <ref> tags -->| area_footnotes           = <ref>{{Dutch municipality total area|dataref}}</ref>
<!-- square kilometers -->| area_total_km2           = {{Dutch municipality total area|Goes}}
| area_land_km2            = {{Dutch municipality land area|Goes}}
| area_water_km2           = {{Dutch municipality water area|Goes}}
| elevation_footnotes      = <ref name="AHN">{{cite web
 |url=http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool 
 |title=Postcodetool for 4461GE 
 |language=nl 
 |work=Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland 
 |publisher=Het Waterschapshuis 
 |access-date=8 December 2013 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053543/http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool 
 |archive-date=21 September 2013 
}}</ref>
| elevation_m              = &minus;1
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| elevation_min_m          = <!-- Population, demographics -->
| population_footnotes     = <ref>{{Dutch municipality population|dataref}}</ref>
| population_total         = {{Dutch municipality population|Goes}}
| population_as_of         = {{MONTHNAME|{{Dutch municipality population|popbasemonth}}}} {{Dutch municipality population|popbaseyear}}
| population_density_km2   = {{Dutch municipality population density|Goes}} <!-- For automatic calculation: auto-->
| population_demonym       = Goesenaar
<!-- Other information -->| timezone1                = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset1              = +1
| timezone1_DST            = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset1_DST          = +2
| postal_code_type         = Postcode
| postal_code              = 4460–4483
| area_code_type           = Area code
| area_code                = 0113
| website                  = {{URL|1=http://goes.nl}}
| footnotes                = 
}}

'''Goes''' ({{IPA-nl|ɣus|-|241 Goes.ogg}}) is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, in the province of Zeeland. The city of Goes has approximately 29,000 residents.

==History==
 [[File:Goes, Grote of Maria Magdelenakerk foto7 2009-09-25 16.11.JPG|thumb|left|''De Maria Magdalenakerk'']]
[[File:TV-Tower Goes by Night.jpg|thumb|left|TV tower]]
Goes was founded in the 10th century on the edge of a creek: {{Lang|nl|de Korte Gos}} (the Short Gos). The village grew fast, and in the early 12th century it had a market square and a church devoted to Mary Magdalene. By 1300 it had a brick castle, now known as Oostende Castle.

In 1405 Goes received city rights from William II, Duke of Bavaria, by his right as count of Holland, and in 1417 it was allowed to build town walls. The prosperity of the city was based upon the cloth industry and the production of salt. In the 16th century, Goes declined. Its connection to the sea silted up and in 1554 a large fire destroyed part of the city.

In the autumn of 1572, during the course of the Eighty Years' War, Goes, in the Spanish Netherlands, was besieged by Dutch forces with the support of English troops. The [[Biology:Relief of Goes|siege was relieved]] in October 1572 by Spanish tercios, who waded across the Scheldt to attack the besieging forces. In 1577 the Spanish soldiers who occupied Goes were driven out by Prince Maurice of Nassau. The prince built a defence wall around Goes, which is still partly standing. From the 17th century, Goes did not play an important role, except as an agricultural centre. In 1868 a railway was constructed through it, but this did not lead to industrialisation. Agriculture remains the most important economic activity.

Although the Netherlands were neutral in the First World War, seven bombs hit Goes and Kloetinge, due to an error by a British airplane. A house in Magdalenastreet in Goes was destroyed and one person killed. Goes did not suffer extensive damage during the Second World War, but was under German occupation until 1944.

Goes did not experience much population growth until the 1970s and 1980s. Then, the city grew fast because of new districts like Goese Meer, Oostmolenpark, Overzuid and Ouverture being constructed. Goes is now the fourth largest economic centre in Zeeland. New districts are in preparation, amongst them Goese Schans, Mannee and Aria, where 3,000 new houses are to be built.

==Population centers==
{{columns-list|colwidth=18em|
*Eindewege
*'''Goes'''
*[[Place:'s-Heer Arendskerke|'s-Heer Arendskerke]]
*[[Place:'s-Heer Hendrikskinderen|'s-Heer Hendrikskinderen]]
*[[Place:Kattendijke|Kattendijke]]
*[[Place:Kloetinge|Kloetinge]]
*Oud-Sabbinge
*[[Place:Wilhelminadorp, Goes|Wilhelminadorp]]
*[[Place:Wolphaartsdijk|Wolphaartsdijk]]
}}

===Topography===
[[File:Goes-plaats-OpenTopo.jpg|500px]]

''Dutch Topographic map of Goes (town), Sept. 2014.''

==Districts==
{{columns-list|colwidth=18em|
* Centre Goes
* West Goes
* New West
* East Goes
* Noordhoek
* Goese Meer
* Goese Polder
* South Goes
* Overzuid
* Ouverture
* De Goese Poort (business area)
* De Poel (I, II, III en IV, business area)
* Klein Frankrijk (business area)
* Marconi (business area)
* Aria (developing)
* Mannee
* Goese Schans (developing)
}}

==International relations==

===Twin towns — sister cities===
[[File:NS-station Goes.jpg|thumb|Front of the railway station in Goes]]
Goes ''was'' twinned with Panevėžys, Lithuania.<ref>{{cite web |title=Delegatie uit zusterstad Panevežys brengt bezoek aan Goes|url=https://www.pzc.nl/bevelanden/delegatie-uit-zusterstad-panevezys-brengt-bezoek-aan-goes~ad1744ca/|website=pzc.nl|publisher=PZC|language=nl|date=2018-06-04|access-date=2019-10-22}}</ref>

On 22 July 2021 the town council decided to end the twinning.<ref>Town council meeting 22 july 2021, item 10 (in Dutch) [https://goes.raadsinformatie.nl/vergadering/789769/Debatraad%2022-07-2021], online consulted 2022-03-28.</ref>

==Transport==
Goes has a railway station located on the Roosendaal–Vlissingen railway.

== Notable people ==
[[File:Buys-Ballot 1857.png|140px|thumb|C.H.D. Buys Ballot, 1857]]

=== Public thinking & service ===
* Cornelis Caesar ({{Circa|1610}}–1657), merchant and governor of Formosa
* C. H. D. Buys Ballot (1817–1890), chemist and meteorologist, invented [[Earth:Buys Ballot's law|Buys Ballot's law]]
* Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte (1822–1902), politician
* Jacob Adriaan de Wilde (1879–1956), politician and jurist
* Leendert Ginjaar (1928–2003), politician and chemist
* [[Biography:Bas van Fraassen|Bas van Fraassen]] (born 1941), philosopher
* Albert J. R. Heck (born 1964), scientist and academic
* Katinka Simonse (born 1979) known as Tinkebell, artist

=== The arts ===
[[File:Leo van Doeselaar001.jpg|140px|thumb|Leo van Doeselaar, 2007]]
* Willem Eversdijck ({{Circa|1620}}–1671), Golden Age painter
* Pieter Peutemans (1641–1698), Golden Age painter
* Pieter Adriaan Jacobus Moojen (1879- 1955), architect, painter and writer
* Leo van Doeselaar (born 1954), classical organist and conductor
* Boudewijn Vincent Bonebakker (born 1968) and Frank Harthoorn, guitarists of Gorefest

=== Sports ===
* Myrna Veenstra (born 1975), former field hockey player, bronze medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics
* Martijn Dieleman (born 1979), former Dutch volleyball player, competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics
* Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove (born 1991), tennis player

== Gallery ==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Goes olden haavn.jpg|City harbor of Goes 
File:Beeld Bergweg.jpg|Beeld Bergweg
File:Goes 08827.jpg|De veste (canal) in Goes
File:Goese Golf Clubhuis.jpg|Goese Golf Clubhuis
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{Wikivoyage|Goes}}
*[http://www.goes.nl Official website] {{in lang|nl}}

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{{Geographic location
|Centre    = Goes
|North     = Noord-Beveland<br>''[[Earth:Veerse Meer|Veerse Meer]]''
|Northeast = ''Oosterschelde'' / Tholen
|East      = Kapelle
|Southeast = 
|South     = Borsele
|Southwest = 
|West      = Middelburg
|Northwest = 
}}

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